Nearly half of Covid patients haven’t fully recovered months later, study finds

A study of tens of thousands of people in Scotland found that 1 in 20 people who had been sick with COVID-19 reported not recovering at all, and another 4 in 10 said they had not fully recovered from their infections many months later.

The authors of the study, published Wednesday in the journal Nature Communications, tried to home in on the long-term risks of COVID by comparing the frequency of symptoms in people with and without previous